Cricket News

The PCB has responded to Shahid Afridi's retirement by putting together a showcause notice detailing several breaches of the code of conduct, which he will eventually be expected to respond to

The PCB has requested national coach Waqar Younis to return to Pakistan after the Ireland tour, instead of going to Australia, to discuss manager Initikhab Alam's report on the West Indies tour

Waqar Younis, the Pakistan coach, has backed Ireland to become tough opponents in their home conditions after his team played them in two one-day internationals in Belfast

Shahid Afridi, Pakistan's recently axed one-day captain, has announced his "conditional" retirement from the international game, as a mark of protest against the way he has been "humiliated" by the PCB

A brilliant, belligerent century by Paul Stirling wasn't enough to take Ireland to victory over Pakistan in the second ODI

Pakistan A completed a clean sweep of the three-match limited overs series against Afghanistan, with a hard-fought four-wicket win in Faisalabad

Pakistan will not experiment much against Ireland in the second game of the two-match ODI series on Monday in Belfast, coach Waqar Younis has said

The Emirates Cricket Board chief has urged the PCB to make longer-term plans to host matches in the UAE

Pakistan began their tour of Ireland, and Misbah-ul-Haq's new phase as ODI captain, on a high, beating the hosts by seven wickets after Junaid Khan had helped skittle them out for 96

The stakes are high for Ireland as they prepare for their first international assignment - a two-match ODI series against Pakistan - since the 2011 World Cup

A solid batting performance from the top order set up Pakistan A's huge win over Afghanistan in Rawalpindi, helping the hosts seal the three-match series 2-0 with a game to go

Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, has said that there were "solid reasons" for the removal of Shahid Afridi as ODI captain but that he will reveal those reasons at a later date

An all-round performance by Pakistan A resulted in a five-wicket win over Afghanistan in Islamabad, in the first game of the three-match limited-overs series

Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan allrounder, has withdrawn from the squad for the two one-day internationals against Ireland later this month for personal reasons

Darren Sammy, the West Indies captain, believes that his bowlers can take plenty of positives out of the series against Pakistan despite the home team losing the final Test in St Kitts

Pakistan's spinners picked up an unprecedented 32 of the 40 available wickets to square the two-Test series against West Indies, leaving left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman surprised by the amount of turn on offer at the two venues

Afghanistan captain Nawroz Mangal has said that his side's tour of Pakistan would help in re-opening the gates of international cricket to the country

Saeed Ajmal, the Pakistan offspinner, has had his bowling action called into question by Viv Richards

Pakistan's spinners completed the job they had begun on the fourth afternoon, slicing through the West Indian middle order and tail to secure a series-levelling victory by 196 runs in St Kitts

There will be a preliminary hearing in July in the Crown Prosecution Services' case against the three Pakistan players banned for spot-fixing and player-agent Mazhar Majeed